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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 15:49:25 +1300
From: Joe Abley <jabley@patho.gen.nz>
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Subject: Re: NIS
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On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 02:32:12PM +1300, Joe Abley wrote:
> I have a NIS server running on the local machine, and ypbind has
> successfully bound to it. I can
> 
> [things I can do]
> 
> I can't get regular system utilities like su, chown, chgrp, etc to
> recognise the users in and groups in their respective nis maps. I
> suspect I am missing something simple :)

Turns out I was. The simple thing was that the users I was testing
with weren't in the NIS maps. Annoying and irritating, but worth
mentioning in case anybody was planning to waste any cycles helping
me with this.

  Customer: "I have a problem."
  Support: "Have you checked to see whether you're stupid?"
  Customer: "Oh, that's right, I _am_ stupid. That's the problem."
  Support: "Glad to be of service."

Joe


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